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‘Drop it.’There was nothing else left to be said except for, ‘Take care, Mouse.’ I left her in front of Ferris’s mansion and drove off.
I guess even kings get burned once in a while. I just needed to learn that lesson the hard way.
Chapter 11
D-Day had come and our plan to extract information from the governor was less than 24h away from being put into practice. We had a small meeting at Ferris’s place which I attended, despite my frustration of having to be in the same room as Bea. It wasn’t really frustration. More of a mixture of being pissed off and turned on at the same time, making my decision of breaking the deal unbearable.
I managed somehow to get through the day, ending up being both Brax’s designated backup in case of an emergency and his partner at the stakeout in front of the governor’s mansion.
I couldn’t let whatever feelings I had developed for Bea make me go back on my word. I was going to see the plan through and then, and only then, would I decide what to do next.
It was time for Mouse to go into the governor’s mansion while Brax and I would keep surveillance from one of his vans parked outside.
I was trying not to let it show, but I was even more stressed out than Bea at that point, and by the look on Brax’s face, he wasn’t falling too far behind.
The worst part was I had to listen from a distance to Bea’s strategy of charming the governor. Can’t deny it worked. In fact, she was so good at making him fall for her fantasies that I was getting caught in her story as well. Who ever knew that she was such a She-devil after all?
My daydreaming didn’t last for long since the governor’s constant attempts of getting his wrinkled hands on her brought me crashing back to reality, replacing whatever fantasy I might have had with Mouse with pure hatred towards the governor.
I could have ended him right there and then and fuck up the entire plan. But Bea seemed to be on exactly the right track, pretending to play different roles and deceiving him into taking her to explore the exact locations she needed. The girl was a fucking genius, and that was just one more reason added to the list of reasons for me wanting her.
Things got heated up really quickly.
Bea was just putting on the sexiest piece of lingerie, igniting a dangerous volcano to boil the very nano cells in my bloodstream, when I received a text from Ferris.
We have an emergency.
At first, I thought it had something to do with the mission, but apparently, our plan had a plan D of its own.
I kept looking at the surveillance screen, waiting for Ferris to answer. Last thing I knew, Mouse was mentioning something aboutpropsto the Governor, making both mine and Brax’s nostrils flare with irritation — even if we would never willingly admit it to one another.
Ferris eventually answered. It looked like I was destined to go on a different mission that day. The hospital had called. Bea’s younger brother was in line for a kidney transplant. It was a case of, now or never, and since we couldn’t take Mouse out of the house to go with him, I was the only option he had. The kid couldn’t be sent there alone, and to be honest, no matter what kind of a prick I was in real life, I couldn’t accept the thought of knowing he would face surgery without having someone by his bedside.
I loathed hospitals, but desperate times called for desperate measures, and I was to act on my best behavior. Everything was a fucking nightmare. The hospital stress, the wait, and especially not knowing what was happening back at the governor’s house. Brax didn’t have time to fill me in since he needed to be on high alert at all times, and neither did Ferris. I was locked outside a brick wall, uselessly trying to figure out how things were going.
That was until I got a call.
The fucking call that was about to change my life.
It was about Mouse. Brax’s quivering voice informed me she was more dead than alive. He was bringing her to the hospital in just a few minutes.
My heart stopped functioning for a split second, but with unnatural forces, I managed to man up and run straight to the main entrance. Everything seemed to be falling apart piece by piece, and I was supposed to be the one who would put it back together.
Brax didn’t even park the car. He just stopped in the middle of the road while an army of nurses and doctors was rushing to take Bea out of his arms. For a moment, I couldn’t even look at her. Brax’s petrified face was scaring the hell out of me while the doctors screaming for life-support were instilling a morbid chill and a sense of finality racing down my spine.
‘Who did this?’ I roared, although I already knew the answer.
‘Keep your voice down,’ Brax warned me, pulling me towards the front of the car so no one would hear us. ‘Who the fuck do you think?... The governor. Listen, I can’t stay. The police will be asking questions and I need to deal with that dipshit before that happens. Just take care of her and keep me informed. I have to go.’
Brax disappeared before anyone could get to take his car number. Not that the doctors didn’t know who he was, but for the right amount anything could be settled in this city, including buying discretion and covering up any kind of incident.
I was the man for that job and everything was settled even before I got back up to run between the ER and the surgery room.
Despite all the madness, I could barely take a look at Bea... not that I could recognize much of her face anyway. There was so much blood everywhere, and what wasn’t covered by the red liquid, was either swollen or already bruising.That image haunted me through the many hours to come as I struggled to somehow keep functioning.
Sebastian was just coming out of surgery when Ferris walked into the hospital lobby, fuming and thundering to see Bea. Despite all his wealth and money to be spread around, the doctors denied him access. The medical staff just kept fussing through the ER door, too busy to even acknowledge our presence.
